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Editor of Pluribus, an online project exploring the rising tide of illiberalism and its recent progeny, cancel culture. Also, freelance writer, accountant, etc.
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Apr 26 6 tweets 3 min read
This is amazing. On @CNN today: "What the pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses actually want"

Guess who they quote...

"'We are not going anywhere until our demands are met,' Khymani James, a student at Columbia University..."

Do not mention what James REALLY wants.

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LINKS:

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/26…
Apr 22 5 tweets 2 min read
New @nytimes euphemism dropped: "veered into"

Currently on home page: "Some demonstrations on and around Columbia’s campus veered into the harassment of Jewish students." Image "...some pro-Palestinian demonstrations on and around campus veered into the harassment of Jewish students..." - @nytimes Image
Nov 20, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The same @washingtonpost article that quotes Hamas-provided casualty numbers without labeling them as such says Israel has not provided "**significant** evidence" that Hamas used a hospital as a base of operations.
washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/…

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Also in the article: "The list of injuries the U.N. team witnessed was an indicator of the brutality of an Israeli military campaign..." Image
Oct 19, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
This @NYTimes story included a line about the "rubble of the ruined hospital" and was not corrected for 20 hours.

The really egregious part is that this was the TIMES'S own characterization of the video.

[Original] Oct. 17, 2023, 9:47 p.m. ET
Updated Oct. 18, 2023, 5:54 p.m. ET

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links to archived pages

web.archive.org/web/2023101801…
web.archive.org/web/2023101823…
Mar 7, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Here's the Florida Bar profile of the @splcenter attorney Thomas Webb Jurgens arrested this week. An email to the SPLC address listed below did not get bounced back, but another email to a non-existent name did, so seems to confirm it's a legit address.
floridabar.org/about/section/… Image Here's the rejected email. I did not get a similar reply for an email to the Jurgens address. Image
Sep 22, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
After YEARS of publishing on its website that at 5-6 weeks of a pregnancy, "A very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop," Planned Parenthood has decided... it really doesn't. Now: "It sounds like a heartbeat on an ultrasound, but it's not a fully-formed heart..."
1/ The change happened sometime in the past two months (after the Supreme Court's Roe decision.) As of 7/25/22, an archive of the website shows the original wording. The rest of the page remains unchanged and there's no note to indicate the update was made.
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Sep 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
In March, I wrote about the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program for @thedispatch, How the Pandemic Has Overwhelmed a Federal Injury Compensation Program. Six months later, the pace of claims resolution is still at a crawl despite new personnel. 1/
thedispatch.com/p/how-the-pand… 2/ As of March 1, out of 7,056 COVID-related claims, resolved claims stood at seven. As of Sept 1, out of 9,888 COVID-related claims, 45 have been resolved. 42 claims were rejected, three have been deemed eligible for compensation, but eligible expenses are still under review. 2/
Jun 16, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
UPDATE: There's no update.

Nicholas Roske was indicted by a federal grand jury for the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh yesterday. The last @NYTimes article to mention Roske was a week ago.
nytimes.com/search?query=n… The @washingtonpost has the story on its home page.
washingtonpost.com
Jun 15, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
So, today Nicholas Roske was indicted for the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice. We also learned the assassin texted his sister while waiting outside Kavanaugh's home. The sister convinced him to call 911.

Sorry, @nytimes readers. Spoiler! Reminder:
Apr 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
In February 2021, Nina Jankowicz, head of the new Disinformation Governance Board, expressed concern about Ukraine's Zelenskiy administration "drafting regulations on countering disinformation"
getrevue.co/profile/wiczip… A report Nina Jankowicz co-authored indeed pointed out some serious issues with the proposals.
wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/…
Oct 13, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Federal Officials Close Review of the Officer-Involved Shooting of Jacob Blake justice.gov/opa/pr/federal… Rather than run a story on last week's Justice Dept decision to close the Jacob Blake police shooting case, the @nytimes simply tacked a few paragraphs at the end of a "What We Know About the Shooting of Jacob Blake" piece first published in Sept. 2020...
nytimes.com/article/jacob-…
Sep 26, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Holy crap, @NewYorker! Explicitly calls for property destruction.
Sep 1, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
"Villages where cloth masks were distributed experienced a 5 percent reduction in symptoms..."

"villages where surgical masks were distributed saw a reduction of 12 percent."
poverty-action.org/study/impact-m… This seems a little odd... if your study is trying to determine the efficacy of mask wearing, how are you remaining neutral with "text message reminders about *the importance of mask-wearing*"?
poverty-action.org/study/impact-m…
Aug 30, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
December 18, 2020: "Pelosi, McConnell get COVID-19 vaccine, urge others to do so" - ABC News

December 20, 2020: "Serious question. Is seemingly our entire top political leadership getting the vaccine ahead of others because of their age or their importance?" - @AnandWrites ImageImage
Apr 21, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
via @pleasehandlethx
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@NYTimes edits out "unarmed" from @AttorneyCrump's tweet about the Makiyah Bryant shooting (Bryant was swinging a knife at someone when she was shot by police):
nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/…
Especially egregious given that the @NYTimes repeatedly parroted @AttorneyCrump's lie that Jacob Blake had no knife:
Apr 20, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Students file EOAA complaint after human rights professor uses N-word more than 10 times during class on hate speech columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/1… "...she pulled from a personal anecdote that had taken place in the United States. She used the N-word as she repeated dialogue from Ku Klux Klan leaders, a lawyer, and her own colleague."
columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/04/1…
Apr 19, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
April 16, @nytimes: "flashlight... illuminates a handgun in Adam’s right hand";"appears to show Adam tossing the handgun behind a fence as he turns"
April 17, @nytimes: "officer chased down a 13-year-old boy in a West Side alley & fatally shot him as he turned with his hands up." ImageImageImage The April 17 article opens with the story of the 13 year old who was shot, first paragraph - doesn't mention gun. Waits to grafs 12 & 13 to even mention that the boy had what "appears to be a gun" even though the Times reported on 4/16 that he had one a second before he was shot. ImageImageImage
Jan 13, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
This statement appears nowhere on the @WhiteHouse website, the homepage of which has remained unchanged for 30 days now. It was not tweeted by @WhiteHouse or @POTUS either. ImageImage Not tweeted by @kayleighmcenany or @PressSec either.
Jan 13, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ Still not seeing this reported anywhere, but correct me if I'm wrong. @Washingtonpost /FBI warning story today quoted some threats regarding the January 6th Capitol events. I found two of those threats in archived pages from TheDonald.Win, a pro-Trump message board. 2/ I have tried to contact the moderators of TheDonald.Win and the press office of the FBI, but neither have responded at this point.
Jan 12, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
The threat referenced in this Post story appears to have been posted on TheDonald dot Win site on January 2 by a user (since deleted, as was the post) named "EagleKneivel" who joined the site on 12/22/20. The post is archived on the Archive dot com site: Image Archive dot *org, I mean
Jan 2, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
"Some of my colleagues have claimed that, even though they agree that President Bush has won Ohio, they must take this opportunity to speak about the need for electoral reform. I submit that hijacking a presidential election to use as a personal soapbox is shameful."@senatemajldr "But if electoral reform is needed, Senators should introduce legislation. They should not obstruct a legitimate count of the electoral votes where there is an unequivocal victor. They should not trample on the proud republican government our Founding Fathers bequeathed us."